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vertical sections ; it is to each of these sections — of these 

 vertical divisions — that each of the movements which we 

 more particularly wish to analyze corresponds. 



We proceed to study first the pace of ambling, because it 

 is the most simple ; we shall then consider the trot, and, 

 finally, we shall examine that which is the most complicated, 

 viz., the step. 



The Amble. — To give an exact idea of the general 

 character of the amble, let us fancy the two men whom 

 we discussed above marching one behind the other and 

 walking in step — that is, moving the legs of the same side 



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 Fig. 124. — The Amble : Right Lateral Pressure.* 



simultaneously. They will thus represent the amble, which, 

 indeed, results from the alternate displacements of the 

 lateral bipeds ; the limbs of the same side (right or left) 

 execute the same movements in the same time. 



This is what the notation indicates (Fig. 123). We there 

 see that the pressures of the right fore-foot, marked by the 

 white bands in the upper range, are exactly superposed on 

 those of the right hind one, which are marked by a similar 

 band on the lower hue ; this means that the pressures 



* The figures which, in the present study, reproduce the different paces, 

 have been made from our articulated horse (see the note on p. 282). 



